Sure, he was right about torture. Sure, you can get an ought from an is.
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Caleb Jackson
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Aiden Bennett
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>author: Stephen Cave
good fucking job OP
Matthew James
Whether or not there is free will is a completely moot point. Even if it was proven without any doubt one way or the other, everyone would continue on just as they always had.
It's a non-issue.
Evan Jenkins
and that is why philosophy is gay as shit and waste of fucking time
Caleb Cruz
seems to exist to me imo
Ian Peterson
Why does it seem like all proponents of determinism, reductionism, eliminative materialism, etc. are arrogant douches? It seems like they never give much of a shit about the consequences of their ideas or anything. They find their raison d'etre in pushing mechanistic metaphysics to absurd lengths and don't care at all about what other people need to live.
Ayden Howard
it's not their fault
Bentley Peterson
>Sure, you can get an ought from an is.
how?
Kayden Flores
I disagree. You're right that free will either does or does not exist; in that respect nothing would change, and life would go on as it had. But people act differently based on whether or not they believe in free will, and so even in a deterministic system without free will it might be useful to tell the masses that free will exists.
Philosophy isn't useless even if it doesn't change how things metaphysically are, because it changes how we believe things are, and as a result how we act.
The true purpose of philosophy is to decide which Noble Lies are worth believing
Nolan Howard
You sound like a moron.